Federal Election 2016: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders have united to release a Communique calling for a re-setting of the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples with the incoming Government and the 45th Parliament.
The Peak organisations that signed the Federal Election 2016 Redfern Statement, have requested that within the month of the newly formed government that a meeting between the Prime Minister and National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and a Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and organisations be held.
The Communique has issued recommendations with the request for a Senior Cabinet Minister to walk and work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The group have also called for a Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs to employ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Staff.
The final steps include that the incoming Government host an National First Peoples Summit to establish the framework for how all governments and Australia's first peoples work together to address the challenges that we are met with daily.
Co Chair for National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Jackie Huggins has just returned from a leaders meeting in Broome and elders are telling her that policy relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is still problematic and it is showing in communities.
Jackie Huggins speaks to Living Black Radio for the eve of the Federal election 2016.
